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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rehersall, Reheirsall, n. Also: reherss-, reheres-, reheirssall, rehersaill, rehearsal, -el. [ME and e.m.E. rehersaille (Chaucer), rehercel (c1449), rehersall (1525), f. Rehers(e v.] Rehearsal, in various senses. a. = Rehers(e n. 1. b. = Rehers(e n. 2. c. The act of setting down or listing. To mak reheirsall of, to enumerate, mention. Cf. Rehers(e n. 3.a. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 18.
Scho maid reheirsall of the speich that the king had had with hir 1618 Five Articles in Bk. Univ. Kirk III 1166.
To make rehearsal of the Lords Prayerb. a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 569 (Asl.).
No neid is now to makin rehersall c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS 265a/15.
To mak rehersall of his riche array 1573 Cal. Sc. P. IV 566.
Rehersaill a1578 Pitsc. I 398/19.
Reherssall c1590 Fowler II 10/15.
Leuand the rehearsel of thais vertewis … to be decorit with gritter eloquence 1619 Perth Kirk S. MS 9 Sept.
Reheirssall being maid of the said William Rynd his godles and outragious speichis [etc.]c. c1520-c1535 Nisbet I 9.
A reheresall of the generatiounn of the faders 1580 Skeyne Descr. Well 5.
I will not mak reheirsall of the mony particular persounis quha [etc.] c1590 Fowler II 47/15.
In the rehearsal of the apostles namis beginning is maid from Peter